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Science is part of the Darwinian struggle for life. It helps us to organize our experience. It leads us to economy of thought. Mathematical laws are nothing more than conventions useful for summarizing the results of possible experiments.
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Curiously, the unexpected complexity that has been discovered in nature has not led to a slowdown in the progress of science, but on the contrary to the emergence of new conceptual structures that now appear as essential to our understanding of the physical world - the world that includes us.
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
Karel Čapek
Isabelle Stengers
Born:
1949
(age 77)
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Isabelle Stengers is a Belgian philosopher, noted for her work in the philosophy of science.
Known for:
Cosmopolitics II (2011)
The invention of modern science (2000)
Power and invention (1997)
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